"NOTHING IS EVER MY FAULT," HE CONTINUED. "IT'S SO LIBERATING. LIKE, THIS AFTERNOON, I TOOTED. BUT I IMMEDIATELY HOLLERED AT NEW JAY" BARRY O THEN POINTED TO WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON JOSH EARNEST WHO ROLLED HIS EYES "AND BEGAN ASKING NEW JAY WHY HE TOOTED. 'NEW JAY!' I YELLED, 'WHY DIDN'T YOU STEP OUTSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE TO TOOT? YOU THINK WE'RE WANTING TO SMELL ALL THAT, NEW JAY? BECAUSE WE AREN'T!'"

Whomever started that lie should step forward and take accountability for that outlandish claim.

Iraq? His 'plan' is falling apart for anyone who wants to pay attention.

Lizzie Dearden (Irish Indpendent) reports:According to the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the
Middle East, Isil was approaching the Iraqi capital yesterday morning."The Islamic State are now less than 2km away from entering Baghdad," a spokesperson said."They
said it could never happen and now it almost has. President Obama says
he overestimated what the Iraqi Army could do. Well you only need to be
here a very short while to know they can do very very little."

B-b-b-ut the plan! The plan to bomb from the air! That plan was foolproof, right?

Wrong. We noted it would become normalized and it has.

The effectiveness would never last for weeks. It only had an element of surprise for so long.

Kristina Wong (The Hill) reports:Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants are adjusting to U.S.
airstrikes, making it more difficult to target them, an Air Force
general said Monday.ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria had
previously traveled in columns of vehicles with flags, Air Force Maj.
Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, Air Force assistant deputy chief of staff for
operations, plans and requirements, told reporters at a briefing
Monday."They
are now dispersing themselves to allow themselves situations to be more
survivable, if you will, which requires us to work harder to locate
them, and then develop the situation to appropriately target them,"
Harrigian said.

If only that could have been anticipated, if . . .

Wait. We did anticipate it and we noted it here.

Is the US intelligence community really that stupid or is the person
receiving the intel in daily briefings that struggles with
comprehension?

Dearden noted that Barack admitted to faulty intel.

Wow. So Barack might have overestimated the Iraqi military?

The Shi'ite militia is part of the Iraqi forces -- remains part. Nouri
brought them in -- Tim Arango broke that story in the fall of 2013.

There's been no effort by the new prime minister to address that even
though these militias are seen as death squads -- by Sunnis, yes, but
also by other Shi'ites.

Did Barack miss that fact in an briefing as well?

Realities like this matter.

They matter in terms of what any campaign or plan can accomplish, yes.

On Sunday's 60 Minutes,
US President Barack Obama repeatedly demonstrated how little he
understood of Iraq. We focused on this section of the interview:

President Barack Obama: Well, I think our head of the intelligence
community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they
underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.
Essentially, what happened with ISIL was that you had al Qaeda in Iraq,
which was a vicious group, but our Marines were able to quash with the
help of Sunni tribes. They went back underground.
But over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil
war, where essentially you have huge swathes of the country that are
completely ungoverned, they were able to reconstitute themselves and
take advantage of that chaos, and attract foreign fighters who believed
in their jihadist nonsense, and traveled everywhere from Europe to the
United States to Australia to other parts of the Muslim world,
converging on Syria. And so this became ground zero for jihadists around
the world. And they have been very savvy in terms of their social
media. In some cases, you have old remnants of Saddam Hussein's military
that had been expunged from the Iraqi military, which gave them some
traditional military capacity, and not just terrorist capacity.
And this is one of the challenges that we are going to have generally,
is where you have got states that are failing or in the midst of civil
war, these kinds of organizations thrive. That is why it's so important
for us to recognize part of our solution here is going to be military.
We just have to push them back and shrink their space and go after their
command-and-control and their capacity and their weapons and their
fueling, and cut off their financing, and work to eliminate the flow of
foreign fighters.
But what we also have to do is, we have to come up with political
solutions in Iraq and Syria in particular, but in the Middle East
generally, that arrives at an accommodation between Sunni and Shia
populations that right now are the biggest cause of conflict, not just
in the Middle East, but in the world.

In terms of facts, that's incorrect for a number of reasons including the Marines did not quash 'al Qaeda in Iraq.'

Sahwa/Awakenings/Sons Of Iraq and Daughters Of Iraq turned the tide and did so because they were paid to.

Let's drop back to the April 8, 2008 snapshot.
And let's remember Barack had only been serving for three years as a
US Senator at the time and had spent the previous year and 2008
campaigning so he missed a lot of hearings and the ones he showed up for
in April of 2008? He was late to them. People like John Kerry and Joe
Biden babied him, babied his little candy ass, let him show up late and
immediately, even though it wasn't his turn and rules on seniority
required he wait his term, would let him jump ahead of everyone so he
could stumble through his questions -- with more unnatural pauses than
Sandy Dennis managed in her entire acting career -- and then Barack
would rush out of the hearing. So he missed a lot, a whole lot.

From the April 8, 2008 snapshot:

Today The Petraeus & Crocker Variety Hour took their
act on the road. First stop, the Senate Armed Services Committee. Gen
David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker are supposed to be
providing a status report on the Iraq War. They didn't. In fact,
Petraeus made clear that the status report would come . . . next
September. When the results are this bad, you stall -- which is exactly
what Petraeus did.

The most dramatic moment
came as committee chair Carl Levin was questioning Petraeus and a man
in the gallery began exclaiming "Bring them home!" repeatedly. (He did
so at least 16 times before he was escored out). The most hilarious
moment was hearing Petraeus explain that it's tough in the school yard
and America needs to fork over their lunch money in Iraq to avoid
getting beat up. In his opening remarks, Petraues explained of the
"Awakening" Council (aka "Sons of Iraq," et al) that it was a good thing
"there are now over 91,000 Sons of Iraq -- Shia as well as Sunni --
under contract to help Coalition and Iraqi Forces protect their
neighborhoods and secure infrastructure and roads. These volunteers
have contributed significantly in various areas, and the savings in
vehicles not lost because of reduced violence -- not to mention the
priceless lives saved -- have far outweighed the cost of their monthly
contracts." Again, the US must fork over their lunch money, apparently,
to avoid being beat up.

How much lunch
money is the US forking over? Members of the "Awakening" Council are
paid, by the US, a minimum of $300 a month (US dollars). By Petraeus'
figures that mean the US is paying $27,300,000 a month. $27 million a
month is going to the "Awakening" Councils who, Petraeus brags, have led
to "savings in vehicles not lost". Again, in this morning's hearings,
the top commander in Iraq explained that the US strategy is forking over
the lunch money to school yard bullies. What a proud moment for the
country.

I'm being kind right now and leaving it at that but we can quote people
from Barack's administration and reveal not only how stupid and
incorrect Barack's remarks were but how lunatic his supposed 'plan' is.
We'll probably save that for later this week.

The White House had to announce that Barack's remarks about Clapper were
not meant to imply that he no longer had faith in James I Lied To
Congress Clapper.